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Chicago examiner j vol vii no 242 a m wednesday september 29 1909 14 pages price one cent delivered by carrier 30 csnts pei kent tuft in pledge to conservation says congress is hope by william hosier urges 10,000,000 bond issue to complete irrigation proj ects hastily begun gives praise to pinchot advocates restriction by for feiture to prevent monopo lies m coal deposits spokane wash sept 28 the dope of ational conservation rests with congress ii the long-expected speech on this gos el of the west which president lafl elivered here u-il.ty be renewed his as nram of sympathy with and co-operation i the movement that is regarded h/ie as Â»â€¢ greatest achievement of former presi enl roosevelt but m reiterating his ledge to entry out this policy of mr ioosevelt's taf plainly informed his big udiencc that he would go only so far as be t.iv permits the rest he put up to digress there has been a good deal of discus ion ii the newspapers said the i'resi em m one of the concluding paragraphs f his earnest speech as to the attitude f he present administration toward the eneral policy of conservation of natural resources and some very unfair and alto gether unfounded inferences have been drawn the troth is my administration is pledged to follow out the policies of mr booseven iv this regard and while that pledge does not involve me m any obl'ga tion to i-.wvy tliem nut mless 1 have con gressional authority to do so it does re quire that i take every step and exert every legitimate influence upon congress to enact the legislation which shall bes Ã¼bservc the purposes indicated this pledge seemed to satisfy an audience eeply interested m the subject and liberal pplauso greeted the expression of the sentiment it was to an outline of the situ tion and the legislation that is needed hat the president devoted his address auds chief forester frank innii that he is be left no doubt mt he believed the law had not always ppn rqtnrden m the pursuit w the policy j ' conservation but lie voiced no criticism r b predecessor or those who served nn er him on the contrary lie bestowed ivisb praise on the wonderful progress lade by chief forester clirforil pinchot hose dispute with the secretary of the in erior has made the national conservation w big issue m 1 west and no one could list:lke the earnestness and sincerity of he president's pledge to do all that within rui lies to further t lie cause m the success of which lies the prosperity of the west if particular interest were the i'resi ul's views mi the water power sites and he c,i;ii lands tb::t still remain iv the pub lic iioin.iin he insisted that the states should evev.ise mire rigid jurisdiction over the forest and water power rights that hive iin i acquired by private individuals aid v itii regard in hose water power sites mjit st:ll remain m the public domain he v i ate ipjjifilatlon that will give the na r|r.n::l nv rnmeui ibe rijjbt lo dispose of such siies on loujr-terni leases under such â– . â– â– .!('' ; urn that wilt prevent monopoly and . nsi v equal advantages to all the people i similar legislation is demanded with re tn i he ioml deposits on the public .:: in this nmertir.il the president fcir a law tv separate the surface of tip land from its mineral contents and then either to lease the right to take coal from the land at a specified compensation per tun or to sell deposit outright to ih coal miners estiiction by forfeiture hi every ins the president added restriction by way if forfeiture ought ti he included to prevent n monopoly of own rii<hip of h coal m any one set o f men sv as to enable them m control the prict of coal us regards the irrigation projects of th under which the desert has beer iiadc to bloom the president is of th opinion that too much speed has beei shown m undertaking projects with tin result that more projects have been begin than there are funds with which to earn hen through recognizing the value of the work how ever the president advocates the passage of an act by congress authorizing the sec rotary f the interior to issue io,ooo.<km in bonds to complete all projects now pro jected it is proposed thai those bonds shall bi redeemed with money paid into the reela tantlmi fund after the completion of th pvojecr recommendation to congress finally the president said the oil lands of california as well a the phospate lands especially all the coa lands have been withdrawn from settle meat m order to await the action of con gress and i expect to recommend to con grcss legislation on the lines above indl cited with the general purpose of enablini the secretary of the interior m the admin istration of the land laws to secure m.:r beuchts to the public and greater securit against the monopoly of resources the president's train left here at 9:2 p m over the northern pacific for nortl yakima where half a day will be spen to-morrow to-morrow night the presiden will reach seattle for a two-days stay thursday s^-nr Â»). will be t-ift day at tin alaska ukon exposition police seek negro and car william crown i negro chauffeur wat [ employed early last night by the chlcig automobile company to take a car to tin home of t 1 hyinau oak park 4i __Â»!-::)">. when he had failed to arrive t'u hloiicc were uÂ«miÂ»4 four in a speeding auto plunge 10 feet into lake women and men narrowly miss death m dash over brink and out m shoals escaping death almost by a miracle two women and two men raced over a ten-foot embankment m an automobile at the foot of argyle street hvte last night the ma chine continuing to run through the sand and out into the lake where ii was brought up m the shoals the identity of the persons m the auto mobile was kept a secret a man m an other machine from the edgewater garage who went to their assistance refusing io divulge either his own name or that of nny member of the party the machine which leaped the embankment had no number the kdgewater'garage man was attracted to the scene by the screams of the women and on his arrival found the driver of the other automobile wading ashore to get assistance the recent storm had washed away part of the shore atj the foot of argyle street the chauffeur of the machine clearly thought the road was m good condition and before he could turn the machine when he saw the bank hnd crumbled the auto had taken the ten-foot leap into the sand union for office women erman t)c]-p;g-itte sugrgsestm such an organization as neneflelal . the possibility of labor unions being or ganized m this country for girls and women who arc employed as bookkeepers stenographers cashiers correspondents and saleswomen generally was suggested by fraulein margarete schwcichler represent ing the women's trade societies of ger man at the university of Chicago settle ment house last night seventy-five dele gates and their friends were the guests of miss mary e mcdowell head of the uni versity settlement who is one of the lead ers ill the national women's trade i'nion convention fraulein schwcichler pointed out that he laws governing the women workers m germany were better than those of most other countries and said that the women's organizations which have existed more than twenty years and which have a total membership of more than 25,000 are m great measure responsible for the bene ficial laws lawbreakers in church inltarlau conference din on ncea tli cm an most undesirable citlzans j church leaders wlu lake advantage if 1 their position lo violate the law and op press others were denounced m unmis takable terms yesterday at the opening ses sions of the biennial conference of the american unitarian society at the fine aris building yesterday such church men were declared to be the most undesirable citizens and the humiliation of all re ligion this subject was taken up first by the key w w peck who presided at the i hist days sessions and was followed later b rabbi emfl (.;. ilirsch the key joseph h crooker of rosundole mass aroused great enthusiam among the oo delegates who attended the conference by an optimistic review of the temperance situation all over the world i pinchot silent in Chicago iteticent on itow hut talks as toi conservation plans kncuur.aged by assurance of president ; tait's support jifford plnchot the gov ernment's chief forester spoke euthuslas ; tlcally yesterday of the conservation move ment and the administration's promise of '. ji â€¢ i m saving resources mr plnehot arrived m Chicago tester 1 i day on his way from the west where hel spent two months investigating c.nnji 1 ii"iis to washington lie visited the reclamation headquarters m the federal building and lined with friends at the Chicago athletic club leaving at mid night for lie f.ast as lo his verbal warj with secretary of the interior ballingcr the uhief forester assumed a sphlnxllkel attitude police muzzle goldman jim officers betlitcn anarchist mud lecture i'lutforin philadelphia pa sept 28 emma | bold-man did not speak at odd fellows i hall or anywhere else m philadelphia to j night between her and the rostrum were 200 policemen six ' hundred who had i gained admission to the hail at 25 cents each to sec ami bear her were disappoint ed at 8 o'clock the room was crowded to the doors and dr ken heilman was busy selling anarchistic literature to those who would buy mis s ioldman appeared at 8:"j0 and was told she could not enter the building she returned to her hotel ac companied by her attorney and later an nounced that she would speak to-morrow night despite the police knowland married here | pacific coast congxewauua ami vir ginia girl comproiiiift congressman james ituss.-ll knowland of california arrived yesterday from the pacific coast to meet his uaucee m Chicago the bride-to-be miss f.niclyn s west daughter of a proud virginia family and well known m washington society arrived here about the same time from craddoek fa on the atlantic coast with miss west's mother they were driven to the residence of the hey b a iroen ] 154 fifty-sixth street and wire married i couldn't miss greeting the president he sail last nigh and i couldn't gei all the way to virginia and back he is on the committee to welcome Taft to california mrs armour gets police with c.q.d lake forest officers guard packer's country home as strike threatens trouble feared to-day employes on 7,000,000 es tate banded together to oust union workmen butlers coachmen chauffeurs carpen ters gardeners men-of-all-work at arm ourla the new 7,000,000 estate of j ogden armour m lake forest may go on strike this morning there is trouble impending at arm ouria mrs armour yesterday feared that it might break out at any time she telephoned to lake forest for police as sistance assistant chief of police hop man went out to the estate he remained until midnight then he was relieved by another policeman who remained all night a peculiar state of affairs exists on the armour estate it is doubtful if it has a parallel anywhere one of the features of the new home of the millionaire packer is to be a formal italian terraced garden forty men are at work on it edward r-jshnell formerly was the foreman of the men employed m grading he was succeeded a few days ago byseott wilson one of wilson's first acts was to hire four teamsters who car ried union cards m their pockets the union teamsters found that they were working on a job with nonunion men tliey started out.ro unionize the armour astate at once but the balance of the employes well satistied with the way things were run ning decided to do a little unionizing themselves they formed a union of their own it took m every oue on the estate from the stiff-necked ponderous english butler to the youngest boy m the stables from the highest-priced artisan at work on the new home to the lowest-priced laborer the new union decided that its members could not work on a job with really truly union men the ultimatum went forth time is up this morning if the four union teamsters show up and go to work practically every other man on the estate will quit work and there'll be a pretty state of affairs at armourin killed on liner in storm pasiwiigÂ«"r in struck by table ger lildine farrar on ship new yokk sept 28 one passenger was killed and another injured on board the liner kronprinz wilhelm which reached port to-day during one of the most tempestuous voyages across the at lantic the vessel ever had saturday after noon andrew iranoski russian pole a steerage passenger was killed when the top of a table was broken trom the legs by a terrific lurch flying across the room and striking the man m the chest he died instantly and was buried at sea h 11 jackson a western man iv the first t-abln was injured gerahhne i'arrar was a passenger as were andreas dippel and herbert knox smith murray has new system ) _________ asks stair ha ilk kininlners to a conference on i niton i reports washington sept lawrence o murray comptroller of the currency has set about to develop a standard form of ex amination and reports from all banks under whatever supervision^they may be he be jlieves this can be done by careful and de j i tailed co-operation between federal and i state bank supervisory authorities iv a j letter sent to-day to state bank authorities j mr murray outlines his plans and urges ! confidence and co-operation with the federal | bank examiners the state authorities are invited to come to washington for a gen leral conference with the comptroller's de partment at which details of his plan may j \ be worked out new typewriting record jgirl average 05 word v minute for fifteen mlnvtea ni:\v yolik sept 2 miss rose 1 1 fritz made a new typewriting record to i night writing 1,425 words m liftecn min utes from dictation and not an error was ' found m her copy when the judges at the i business show m madison square harden looked ii over she wrote at the rate of ! ninety-live words a minute for tifteen con ! secutlre minutes 11 o blaisdell wrote ninety-two words a minute am f h coombs followed wit eighty-seven and one ilfih words to-morrow miss fritz will have t.i compete with thirteen operators for the world's supremacy queen invents carryall willm-imion has hlnbnrute outfit for ilnliy princess special cable to t'ja examiner i the hague sept 28 baby princess i juliana now takes exercise m uu elaborate sort of arryau invented by her mother queen wilhelmina the novel conveyance is used for taking the royal infant to sheltered spots m the park of het loo and protecting her from the weather dur ing the short journey it contains space for an ordinary baby carriage seats for nurses and a small stove for heating food as well as warming the interior with other appointments merriam committee plans great upheaval will trail every dollar of city's money here are the men who will turn the searchlight m every nook and corner where chicago's millions go â€” the merriam finance commission photographed at its first session finance commission members ' ask 10,000 fund to hire experts for inquiry map out investigation votes to spare none m search for possible leaks m every department initial steps m the inquiry into city finances by the merrlnnr finance commis sion were taken yesterday at the first meeting of the commission m which it was decided to let nothing that would enlighten the public as o the system of expenditures now m vogue m the city hall be over looked a subcommittee of three menbers of the commission brought in a typewritten report with recommendations as to the method of conducting the inquiry the city's bookkeeping system tlie charge that there is duplication of work the pub lic reports of every department the system of ettliiÃŸ city contracts the way supplies j of the city are purchased the way the pay rolis are conducted all will come m fur a thorough inquiry that will bo pressed to the point of showing who is responsible for any errors omissions or grievous faults that exist bell elected secretary there were but seven of the committee on hand spurgeon hell formerly a writer on a financial paper and at present connected with the united states census bureau l was elected secretary of the commission i his salary will be 2,000 a year the com mission will nsk for an appropriation of j fio.ooo to conduct the inquiry and pay the j expenses of experts those tvho attended the gathering and : who did not oppose any of the suggestions ! all of which were made by walter li fish j or were charles e merrlam chairman walter l fisher j w alvord george tunnell william tilden alderman nicholas ij finn and alderman b w snow the report of the committee on the meth ods to lie used for ascertaining the informa tion desired follows in regard to the scope of the eonimis ! sion's work your committee suggests that i lan examination be made of the city's sys } tern of bookkeeping with reference to the i adequacy of this system m safeguarding i the expenditures of public funds with ref erence to the convenience of this system with reference to its cost and is to the possibility of economizing by the elimina-j tiun of duplicate or overlapping work seek light on contracts your committee locoinmends that an ex amination bo made of the system uy which icily contracts are let and purchases of | digs supplies are made and of the prac tical operation and effect of this system with a view of ascertaining whether it se cures the best quality quantity or price | of commodity tour committee recommends that an iu quiry be made into the payrolls of the several departments for the purpose of seeing how far the number of employes the service rendered by such employes the compensation paid them and the condl ' iiuus under which service is performed conform to the best standards or economy and efficiency your committee recommends that a force of expert accountants and investigators be ! employed for the purpose of carrying on ' : rue detailed work necessary to the execn lion of the foregoing plan and that for such purpose tie city council be requested to appropriate the sum id 10,000 thorough probe says fisher while we do not desire to be placed i m the position of criticising any one not : i deserving it we do not want it to be given out that this commission plans any other than a most thorough inquiry into the liii.'incial system of the city said wal ter l fisher m urging the adoption of the subcommittee report which was signed by himself alderman uarrlam and ueorge tunnel the people will expect a thor ough probe no matter what may be dis closed and 1 for one wish t urge that i i the inquiry be so thorough thnt every one i will be satisfied and if the present metb-l i ods are not right that better may be sug-i tested ( j w alvord urged that the experts be employed as soon as practicable for the ! purpose of going into every department land getting facts for the commission i we will have to have experts ami the result of their inquiry practically will be all we can rely upon as authentic h said it would lie an easy matter for a department head to withhold information 1 if he so desired with experts we can ex ; pect ihe best results a sub-committee of three whose duty it ' will be to advise the committee as it pro 1 greases on its work of investigation is to be appointed to-day the committee prac i tieully will direct the investigation if is ' expected walter l fisher william tilde i i and alderman llerriam will comprise the > committee the next meeting of the com mittee will be early next week after the i council has decided whether to allow the 10,000 appropriation kills agonized wife and jury justifies paris man who shot dying woman when she begged him to is freed paris sept i'm a man whose wife is dying of an agonizing disease is justified m killing her to put an end to her suffer ing if she implores him to do so so a jury decided m the court of assizes here to-day and acquitted kilinond liaudin who at her prayer shot and killed ills wife january :'.! last mine kauihn had been afflicted with asthma for years it gripped her throat it was a weight on her lungs it stopped her breath she begged her husband to aid her by killing her quickly as the af fection was slowly throttling her uamlin a mechanic thirty-nine years old a rough plain-spoken man sought to justify his act with words as straightfor ward as they were dramatic tears streamed from his eyes while up testified the jurors also wept and the women in the courtroom were semi-hysteri cal the presiding judge who disapproved of the jury's verdict remarked for the moment the bandage on the eyes of justice was a handkerchief let me die my wife whom i loved dearly iiad suffered fearfully from asthma bandln testified she could not sleep if she laid her head on the pillow she would cry i am choking in the name of the j good god end my misery let me die ou the night she died she was suffer ing intensely bnodln went on the medicine she was taking mas nearly ex hausted 1 will go and get you some more medicine 1 said no she said buy no more medicine you kuow we are poor i am gone medicine will do me no good i suffer oh how i suffer " â€¢ but pay no more for medicine i have i cost you too much money already if you love me put me out of my misery prove your love and let me leave you kill me ! if you were a determined man yoi would not see me suffer as i do " i was maddened by the sight of her agony said haudin 1 seized a revolver with which i intended to defend our ! home shot her m the head she died iu | stantly j cheered after verdict i determined then to kill myself but i j thought of my sister the only other being who depends on me i went to cc myi sister she wept but told me i should surrender to the police which 1 did at j once when baudln finished his testimony every i person m the court was m tears following him dr dnpre a distinguished alienist testified that bandln is perfectly ! sane but said dnpre he was incited j to his fatal act by the stronger will of his ! wife pity for her directed by her will ! led him to shoot her i as bandln left the courtroom a free man j the crowd applauded him hero medal to dickinson war secretary rewarded for saving dro-wnliiÃŸ man 14 l>nrs ago wasiuni/ion sent 28 assistant sec vetary ililles of the treasury department to-day presented i golil lifc-suving medal tto secretary of war jacob m dickinson | tte a^ard had been recommended by a i treasury committee on life-saving medals mr dickinson earned the award m august i 1s when with great peril to himself he rescued james l joy of detroit from ' drowning jud^e Taft now president justice brewer justice brown and other i distinguished men witnessed tlie incident fears husband is killed julian herbert ii fry years old 44.15 north clark street a cigar dealer has bern niissiiii from his horni 1 since mooday morning last iii^'lit iiis wife went to the sheffield avenue station and asked the police to search or him about !> o'clock i monday morning he put a young man m charge of the store and loft wltti two strange men hi had a considerable bum of money with him and his wife tears that he has been robbed and probably murdered detectives were assigned to search for hlw 20 meals on gold in diamond room auditorium hotel to dazzle guests with gold plates gold lace and â€” prices a diamond room where gold-bedecked knee-trousered waiters will serve viands off solid gold plate at prices to match the dia monds the gold plate and the gold lace that's what Chicago is going to have the divorcing of the auditorium hotel and the annex is responsible the annex has its golden banquet room famed on two or more continents it has its own peacock alley likewise famed far and near but the divorcee the audi torium hotel anxious to outshine its old partner of many years is to have its dia mond room where jewels will sparkle and where living will be high to say the least i floyd_clinch president of the audi torium association m announcing last night that beginning at midnight to-morrow the association would conduct the hotel told something about the new diamond room the like of which has never been seen m Chicago before in characteristic fashion he said if a person can afford to pay 50 a day for a suite we believe that he can afford to pay s^o for a dinner served on gold plates by gold-bedecked waiters m a dia mond room and that's just what va are going to do with the old auditorium we are tired of foreign nobility ond ethers coming to Chicago and turning up their noses at our 3 4 and o a day schedules we propose to give them some thing else one hundred rooms will be added to the hotel the present rooms will be rear ranged a dining room will be made out of tha parlor on the second floor a grill room will be placed under the pavement on michigan arenuey b'jt the diamond room will be the auditorium's crowning glory that and the gold-bedecked waiters the improvements will cost 300,000 and will be begun at once the hotel will not be closed mr clinch under the arrange ment sanctioned by the board of directors of the auditorium association yesterday will be director general of the hotel will s shafer and theobold j talty will be the managers Chicago to n.y in 15 hours linking of roads cuts 80 miles him jlaken time probable new yokk sept 28 a fifteen-hour train to Chicago is among the probabilities of the near future the new york central has linked small bits of road from ashta unla ().. to cleat-field i'a to bring about the result the distance has been reduced i bout eighty miles by the new route be tween new york and Chicago the mlle i^i from Chicago to philadelphia has been cut 140 inile.s already freight is being moved over the new route 11 e wllber who baa charge of the traffic said to-day it might be two years before fast passen ger traffic cart be diverted to the new â– route because of the necessity of bringing the trackage up r the requirements of heavy passenger trains running at high , speed co-eds auto in flames __ __ chauffeur rescues fiirlx after kore iiiÃŸ them to keep their scatn five northwestern university co-eds were ! rescued from a burning automobile at sher idan road and church street evanston yesterday afternoon by otto hlavncek tha chauffeur of the machine which hail been rented from the edgewater garage hlav acek says a miss brown rented the car when the fire was discovered m the machine hlavncek ordered the girls to keep their seats he stopped the auto mobile and leaping out opened the door and assisted the young women iv alight ing three of the party are saiil to have lieen miss laura brown mias litith palmer and miss agnes bickell all living at wil lard uixiii shippy return to be forced wayman's agent hurries to carlsbad to urge former police chief's appearance m Chicago levee emis sary on way to block plan man higher up can be found through official is state's attorney's belief counts on shippy's loyalty to friends for success former chief declares he's anxious to come back ' when health will permit , no graft ever touched my hands he says although at present m carlsbad eota mia more than 4,000 miles away george m shippy former chief of police of chi cago continues to monopolize the attention of the small army of detectives and attor neys who are gathering evidence for use by state's attorney wayman m the war upou police graft from the known moves of state's attor ney wayman it is surmised that he will do all m his power to get shippy hack to chi cago it is known he feels that shippy holds the key to the graft conditions the partial u'icoveriug of which led to the con viction of police inspector mecann with shippy as a witness for the state the unmasking of the mysterious ma a higher up and his special coterie of satel lites m the graft world would he made certain and easy according to the opinion credited to mr wayman by his most confi dential associates it is known however that the powers interested m suppressing the graft scandal are making a tremendous effort to get shippy to stand pat it la known th it they have sent a man to europe to counsel shlppy by all means not i.o return to chi cago while the war upou grafters and tor rnptionists is under way on the other haud it is well known that wayman has sent a man to europe to sea shippy and get from him all the iuforma | tion that he can the wayman agent was also instructed to intimate to shippy that the testimony of mecann to the effect that he was ordered by shippy to grant immunity to certain re sorts together with ertain other evwencw which the state's attorney possesses but has not yet made public is sufficient to cause shippy considerable trouble wayman plays on shippy's loyalty in the event of shippy's refusal to re turn voluntarily this agent so it is said was authorized to inform shippy that a way might be found to compel v retnrn in some quarters it is claimed that the consideration which may have greatest weight with shippy and which ultimately may impel him to return is the nought that by testifying for the state m future graft prosecutions it would be ii his power to save some of his close personal and political friends who would otbevivisa inevitably be caught in the wayman net shippy's loyalty to old friends has always been a passion with him and m this case all he would have to do would be to reveal evidence against the city hall politician known m mr wayman's office as the man higher up the man to whom all tlia threads of evidence m mr wayman's pos session points as the principal beneficiary of the graft system in vogue at the present â– lime ill Chicago in the meantime dispatches from eu rope tell how former chief shippi m an â€¢ interview at carlsbad said ! you may way emphatically that not a [ dollar of dishonest money ever found its â– way into the hands of george m shippy : when asked if he would return to l.'hl i j cago m case the grand jury should vote â– indictments against him iie replied certainly i would return provided my i health permits it it is only on acconnt ; of my health that i am remaining here at , all i am about to see a physician to-day " and my plans will depend largely upon - his advice \ heard rumors of graft j i never knew of any widespread urae , tiee of selling police protection â– â– :â– oii desplames street district tole vice there always was but of the iu - used system 1 know nothing knin ra of ibe sale of protection m the district reached me but never anything on vblcb i could bast a isc after a conference yesterday htcrneji for police inspector edward meciiun an l nounced that they would support â€¢ â– '. '- pica for a dew trial with affidavits it tacklng the credibility of louis frank's testimony i the effect that the ftrsi i.'o â– ' â– tection money lie ever collected was fof v i police inspector mecann it mi - Â„-:! by the mecann lawyers thai i ire equipped with half a doseit 'â– showing that tile frank brothers collected ,â€¢ protection money from resorts during a period extending back more than fourteen '* years i in a long distance telephone conversation r from wheeling w va yesterday state's attorney wnyiuan said tic would mil li in i Chicago until friday moraine in fie e | meantime it is expected ilia the ho-irl r of counts commissioners ill its meeting to-day will vote ml w.-iynisfli hie slll.lmhj '' fund be asks r.,i use m the graft ami tampering lnreÂ«tljfn t loafc t weather forecast Â§Â§ Chicago and vicinity fair mj wednesday with moderate tempera g -^ ture thursday fair and warmer xl j moderate westerly winds becoming j'w variable fgn barber shops candy stores cigar stores gfroccries delicatessen school stores etc easily sold through the busi ness chance commas of the examiner â€¢ f 1 " 1 " 1 lnuijliliiini.-^'a ii;.,Â«t â€” -" â– -â€”>â– â– c,<e ,< v icttj tired of the city's grind g!b tv-ft why not buy a little place m -',:-;| f j the country you will find many v j \ bargains m small farms adver ) 4 j-^xj tised on the want pages j

Chicago examiner j vol vii no 242 a m wednesday september 29 1909 14 pages price one cent delivered by carrier 30 csnts pei kent tuft in pledge to conservation says congress is hope by william hosier urges 10,000,000 bond issue to complete irrigation proj ects hastily begun gives praise to pinchot advocates restriction by for feiture to prevent monopo lies m coal deposits spokane wash sept 28 the dope of ational conservation rests with congress ii the long-expected speech on this gos el of the west which president lafl elivered here u-il.ty be renewed his as nram of sympathy with and co-operation i the movement that is regarded h/ie as Â»â€¢ greatest achievement of former presi enl roosevelt but m reiterating his ledge to entry out this policy of mr ioosevelt's taf plainly informed his big udiencc that he would go only so far as be t.iv permits the rest he put up to digress there has been a good deal of discus ion ii the newspapers said the i'resi em m one of the concluding paragraphs f his earnest speech as to the attitude f he present administration toward the eneral policy of conservation of natural resources and some very unfair and alto gether unfounded inferences have been drawn the troth is my administration is pledged to follow out the policies of mr booseven iv this regard and while that pledge does not involve me m any obl'ga tion to i-.wvy tliem nut mless 1 have con gressional authority to do so it does re quire that i take every step and exert every legitimate influence upon congress to enact the legislation which shall bes Ã¼bservc the purposes indicated this pledge seemed to satisfy an audience eeply interested m the subject and liberal pplauso greeted the expression of the sentiment it was to an outline of the situ tion and the legislation that is needed hat the president devoted his address auds chief forester frank innii that he is be left no doubt mt he believed the law had not always ppn rqtnrden m the pursuit w the policy j ' conservation but lie voiced no criticism r b predecessor or those who served nn er him on the contrary lie bestowed ivisb praise on the wonderful progress lade by chief forester clirforil pinchot hose dispute with the secretary of the in erior has made the national conservation w big issue m 1 west and no one could list:lke the earnestness and sincerity of he president's pledge to do all that within rui lies to further t lie cause m the success of which lies the prosperity of the west if particular interest were the i'resi ul's views mi the water power sites and he c,i;ii lands tb::t still remain iv the pub lic iioin.iin he insisted that the states should evev.ise mire rigid jurisdiction over the forest and water power rights that hive iin i acquired by private individuals aid v itii regard in hose water power sites mjit st:ll remain m the public domain he v i ate ipjjifilatlon that will give the na r|r.n::l nv rnmeui ibe rijjbt lo dispose of such siies on loujr-terni leases under such â– . â– â– .!('' ; urn that wilt prevent monopoly and . nsi v equal advantages to all the people i similar legislation is demanded with re tn i he ioml deposits on the public .:: in this nmertir.il the president fcir a law tv separate the surface of tip land from its mineral contents and then either to lease the right to take coal from the land at a specified compensation per tun or to sell deposit outright to ih coal miners estiiction by forfeiture hi every ins the president added restriction by way if forfeiture ought ti he included to prevent n monopoly of own rii. when he had failed to arrive t'u hloiicc were uÂ«miÂ»4 four in a speeding auto plunge 10 feet into lake women and men narrowly miss death m dash over brink and out m shoals escaping death almost by a miracle two women and two men raced over a ten-foot embankment m an automobile at the foot of argyle street hvte last night the ma chine continuing to run through the sand and out into the lake where ii was brought up m the shoals the identity of the persons m the auto mobile was kept a secret a man m an other machine from the edgewater garage who went to their assistance refusing io divulge either his own name or that of nny member of the party the machine which leaped the embankment had no number the kdgewater'garage man was attracted to the scene by the screams of the women and on his arrival found the driver of the other automobile wading ashore to get assistance the recent storm had washed away part of the shore atj the foot of argyle street the chauffeur of the machine clearly thought the road was m good condition and before he could turn the machine when he saw the bank hnd crumbled the auto had taken the ten-foot leap into the sand union for office women erman t)c]-p;g-itte sugrgsestm such an organization as neneflelal . the possibility of labor unions being or ganized m this country for girls and women who arc employed as bookkeepers stenographers cashiers correspondents and saleswomen generally was suggested by fraulein margarete schwcichler represent ing the women's trade societies of ger man at the university of Chicago settle ment house last night seventy-five dele gates and their friends were the guests of miss mary e mcdowell head of the uni versity settlement who is one of the lead ers ill the national women's trade i'nion convention fraulein schwcichler pointed out that he laws governing the women workers m germany were better than those of most other countries and said that the women's organizations which have existed more than twenty years and which have a total membership of more than 25,000 are m great measure responsible for the bene ficial laws lawbreakers in church inltarlau conference din on ncea tli cm an most undesirable citlzans j church leaders wlu lake advantage if 1 their position lo violate the law and op press others were denounced m unmis takable terms yesterday at the opening ses sions of the biennial conference of the american unitarian society at the fine aris building yesterday such church men were declared to be the most undesirable citizens and the humiliation of all re ligion this subject was taken up first by the key w w peck who presided at the i hist days sessions and was followed later b rabbi emfl (.;. ilirsch the key joseph h crooker of rosundole mass aroused great enthusiam among the oo delegates who attended the conference by an optimistic review of the temperance situation all over the world i pinchot silent in Chicago iteticent on itow hut talks as toi conservation plans kncuur.aged by assurance of president ; tait's support jifford plnchot the gov ernment's chief forester spoke euthuslas ; tlcally yesterday of the conservation move ment and the administration's promise of '. ji â€¢ i m saving resources mr plnehot arrived m Chicago tester 1 i day on his way from the west where hel spent two months investigating c.nnji 1 ii"iis to washington lie visited the reclamation headquarters m the federal building and lined with friends at the Chicago athletic club leaving at mid night for lie f.ast as lo his verbal warj with secretary of the interior ballingcr the uhief forester assumed a sphlnxllkel attitude police muzzle goldman jim officers betlitcn anarchist mud lecture i'lutforin philadelphia pa sept 28 emma | bold-man did not speak at odd fellows i hall or anywhere else m philadelphia to j night between her and the rostrum were 200 policemen six ' hundred who had i gained admission to the hail at 25 cents each to sec ami bear her were disappoint ed at 8 o'clock the room was crowded to the doors and dr ken heilman was busy selling anarchistic literature to those who would buy mis s ioldman appeared at 8:"j0 and was told she could not enter the building she returned to her hotel ac companied by her attorney and later an nounced that she would speak to-morrow night despite the police knowland married here | pacific coast congxewauua ami vir ginia girl comproiiiift congressman james ituss.-ll knowland of california arrived yesterday from the pacific coast to meet his uaucee m Chicago the bride-to-be miss f.niclyn s west daughter of a proud virginia family and well known m washington society arrived here about the same time from craddoek fa on the atlantic coast with miss west's mother they were driven to the residence of the hey b a iroen ] 154 fifty-sixth street and wire married i couldn't miss greeting the president he sail last nigh and i couldn't gei all the way to virginia and back he is on the committee to welcome Taft to california mrs armour gets police with c.q.d lake forest officers guard packer's country home as strike threatens trouble feared to-day employes on 7,000,000 es tate banded together to oust union workmen butlers coachmen chauffeurs carpen ters gardeners men-of-all-work at arm ourla the new 7,000,000 estate of j ogden armour m lake forest may go on strike this morning there is trouble impending at arm ouria mrs armour yesterday feared that it might break out at any time she telephoned to lake forest for police as sistance assistant chief of police hop man went out to the estate he remained until midnight then he was relieved by another policeman who remained all night a peculiar state of affairs exists on the armour estate it is doubtful if it has a parallel anywhere one of the features of the new home of the millionaire packer is to be a formal italian terraced garden forty men are at work on it edward r-jshnell formerly was the foreman of the men employed m grading he was succeeded a few days ago byseott wilson one of wilson's first acts was to hire four teamsters who car ried union cards m their pockets the union teamsters found that they were working on a job with nonunion men tliey started out.ro unionize the armour astate at once but the balance of the employes well satistied with the way things were run ning decided to do a little unionizing themselves they formed a union of their own it took m every oue on the estate from the stiff-necked ponderous english butler to the youngest boy m the stables from the highest-priced artisan at work on the new home to the lowest-priced laborer the new union decided that its members could not work on a job with really truly union men the ultimatum went forth time is up this morning if the four union teamsters show up and go to work practically every other man on the estate will quit work and there'll be a pretty state of affairs at armourin killed on liner in storm pasiwiigÂ«"r in struck by table ger lildine farrar on ship new yokk sept 28 one passenger was killed and another injured on board the liner kronprinz wilhelm which reached port to-day during one of the most tempestuous voyages across the at lantic the vessel ever had saturday after noon andrew iranoski russian pole a steerage passenger was killed when the top of a table was broken trom the legs by a terrific lurch flying across the room and striking the man m the chest he died instantly and was buried at sea h 11 jackson a western man iv the first t-abln was injured gerahhne i'arrar was a passenger as were andreas dippel and herbert knox smith murray has new system ) _________ asks stair ha ilk kininlners to a conference on i niton i reports washington sept lawrence o murray comptroller of the currency has set about to develop a standard form of ex amination and reports from all banks under whatever supervision^they may be he be jlieves this can be done by careful and de j i tailed co-operation between federal and i state bank supervisory authorities iv a j letter sent to-day to state bank authorities j mr murray outlines his plans and urges ! confidence and co-operation with the federal | bank examiners the state authorities are invited to come to washington for a gen leral conference with the comptroller's de partment at which details of his plan may j \ be worked out new typewriting record jgirl average 05 word v minute for fifteen mlnvtea ni:\v yolik sept 2 miss rose 1 1 fritz made a new typewriting record to i night writing 1,425 words m liftecn min utes from dictation and not an error was ' found m her copy when the judges at the i business show m madison square harden looked ii over she wrote at the rate of ! ninety-live words a minute for tifteen con ! secutlre minutes 11 o blaisdell wrote ninety-two words a minute am f h coombs followed wit eighty-seven and one ilfih words to-morrow miss fritz will have t.i compete with thirteen operators for the world's supremacy queen invents carryall willm-imion has hlnbnrute outfit for ilnliy princess special cable to t'ja examiner i the hague sept 28 baby princess i juliana now takes exercise m uu elaborate sort of arryau invented by her mother queen wilhelmina the novel conveyance is used for taking the royal infant to sheltered spots m the park of het loo and protecting her from the weather dur ing the short journey it contains space for an ordinary baby carriage seats for nurses and a small stove for heating food as well as warming the interior with other appointments merriam committee plans great upheaval will trail every dollar of city's money here are the men who will turn the searchlight m every nook and corner where chicago's millions go â€” the merriam finance commission photographed at its first session finance commission members ' ask 10,000 fund to hire experts for inquiry map out investigation votes to spare none m search for possible leaks m every department initial steps m the inquiry into city finances by the merrlnnr finance commis sion were taken yesterday at the first meeting of the commission m which it was decided to let nothing that would enlighten the public as o the system of expenditures now m vogue m the city hall be over looked a subcommittee of three menbers of the commission brought in a typewritten report with recommendations as to the method of conducting the inquiry the city's bookkeeping system tlie charge that there is duplication of work the pub lic reports of every department the system of ettliiÃŸ city contracts the way supplies j of the city are purchased the way the pay rolis are conducted all will come m fur a thorough inquiry that will bo pressed to the point of showing who is responsible for any errors omissions or grievous faults that exist bell elected secretary there were but seven of the committee on hand spurgeon hell formerly a writer on a financial paper and at present connected with the united states census bureau l was elected secretary of the commission i his salary will be 2,000 a year the com mission will nsk for an appropriation of j fio.ooo to conduct the inquiry and pay the j expenses of experts those tvho attended the gathering and : who did not oppose any of the suggestions ! all of which were made by walter li fish j or were charles e merrlam chairman walter l fisher j w alvord george tunnell william tilden alderman nicholas ij finn and alderman b w snow the report of the committee on the meth ods to lie used for ascertaining the informa tion desired follows in regard to the scope of the eonimis ! sion's work your committee suggests that i lan examination be made of the city's sys } tern of bookkeeping with reference to the i adequacy of this system m safeguarding i the expenditures of public funds with ref erence to the convenience of this system with reference to its cost and is to the possibility of economizing by the elimina-j tiun of duplicate or overlapping work seek light on contracts your committee locoinmends that an ex amination bo made of the system uy which icily contracts are let and purchases of | digs supplies are made and of the prac tical operation and effect of this system with a view of ascertaining whether it se cures the best quality quantity or price | of commodity tour committee recommends that an iu quiry be made into the payrolls of the several departments for the purpose of seeing how far the number of employes the service rendered by such employes the compensation paid them and the condl ' iiuus under which service is performed conform to the best standards or economy and efficiency your committee recommends that a force of expert accountants and investigators be ! employed for the purpose of carrying on ' : rue detailed work necessary to the execn lion of the foregoing plan and that for such purpose tie city council be requested to appropriate the sum id 10,000 thorough probe says fisher while we do not desire to be placed i m the position of criticising any one not : i deserving it we do not want it to be given out that this commission plans any other than a most thorough inquiry into the liii.'incial system of the city said wal ter l fisher m urging the adoption of the subcommittee report which was signed by himself alderman uarrlam and ueorge tunnel the people will expect a thor ough probe no matter what may be dis closed and 1 for one wish t urge that i i the inquiry be so thorough thnt every one i will be satisfied and if the present metb-l i ods are not right that better may be sug-i tested ( j w alvord urged that the experts be employed as soon as practicable for the ! purpose of going into every department land getting facts for the commission i we will have to have experts ami the result of their inquiry practically will be all we can rely upon as authentic h said it would lie an easy matter for a department head to withhold information 1 if he so desired with experts we can ex ; pect ihe best results a sub-committee of three whose duty it ' will be to advise the committee as it pro 1 greases on its work of investigation is to be appointed to-day the committee prac i tieully will direct the investigation if is ' expected walter l fisher william tilde i i and alderman llerriam will comprise the > committee the next meeting of the com mittee will be early next week after the i council has decided whether to allow the 10,000 appropriation kills agonized wife and jury justifies paris man who shot dying woman when she begged him to is freed paris sept i'm a man whose wife is dying of an agonizing disease is justified m killing her to put an end to her suffer ing if she implores him to do so so a jury decided m the court of assizes here to-day and acquitted kilinond liaudin who at her prayer shot and killed ills wife january :'.! last mine kauihn had been afflicted with asthma for years it gripped her throat it was a weight on her lungs it stopped her breath she begged her husband to aid her by killing her quickly as the af fection was slowly throttling her uamlin a mechanic thirty-nine years old a rough plain-spoken man sought to justify his act with words as straightfor ward as they were dramatic tears streamed from his eyes while up testified the jurors also wept and the women in the courtroom were semi-hysteri cal the presiding judge who disapproved of the jury's verdict remarked for the moment the bandage on the eyes of justice was a handkerchief let me die my wife whom i loved dearly iiad suffered fearfully from asthma bandln testified she could not sleep if she laid her head on the pillow she would cry i am choking in the name of the j good god end my misery let me die ou the night she died she was suffer ing intensely bnodln went on the medicine she was taking mas nearly ex hausted 1 will go and get you some more medicine 1 said no she said buy no more medicine you kuow we are poor i am gone medicine will do me no good i suffer oh how i suffer " â€¢ but pay no more for medicine i have i cost you too much money already if you love me put me out of my misery prove your love and let me leave you kill me ! if you were a determined man yoi would not see me suffer as i do " i was maddened by the sight of her agony said haudin 1 seized a revolver with which i intended to defend our ! home shot her m the head she died iu | stantly j cheered after verdict i determined then to kill myself but i j thought of my sister the only other being who depends on me i went to cc myi sister she wept but told me i should surrender to the police which 1 did at j once when baudln finished his testimony every i person m the court was m tears following him dr dnpre a distinguished alienist testified that bandln is perfectly ! sane but said dnpre he was incited j to his fatal act by the stronger will of his ! wife pity for her directed by her will ! led him to shoot her i as bandln left the courtroom a free man j the crowd applauded him hero medal to dickinson war secretary rewarded for saving dro-wnliiÃŸ man 14 l>nrs ago wasiuni/ion sent 28 assistant sec vetary ililles of the treasury department to-day presented i golil lifc-suving medal tto secretary of war jacob m dickinson | tte a^ard had been recommended by a i treasury committee on life-saving medals mr dickinson earned the award m august i 1s when with great peril to himself he rescued james l joy of detroit from ' drowning jud^e Taft now president justice brewer justice brown and other i distinguished men witnessed tlie incident fears husband is killed julian herbert ii fry years old 44.15 north clark street a cigar dealer has bern niissiiii from his horni 1 since mooday morning last iii^'lit iiis wife went to the sheffield avenue station and asked the police to search or him about !> o'clock i monday morning he put a young man m charge of the store and loft wltti two strange men hi had a considerable bum of money with him and his wife tears that he has been robbed and probably murdered detectives were assigned to search for hlw 20 meals on gold in diamond room auditorium hotel to dazzle guests with gold plates gold lace and â€” prices a diamond room where gold-bedecked knee-trousered waiters will serve viands off solid gold plate at prices to match the dia monds the gold plate and the gold lace that's what Chicago is going to have the divorcing of the auditorium hotel and the annex is responsible the annex has its golden banquet room famed on two or more continents it has its own peacock alley likewise famed far and near but the divorcee the audi torium hotel anxious to outshine its old partner of many years is to have its dia mond room where jewels will sparkle and where living will be high to say the least i floyd_clinch president of the audi torium association m announcing last night that beginning at midnight to-morrow the association would conduct the hotel told something about the new diamond room the like of which has never been seen m Chicago before in characteristic fashion he said if a person can afford to pay 50 a day for a suite we believe that he can afford to pay s^o for a dinner served on gold plates by gold-bedecked waiters m a dia mond room and that's just what va are going to do with the old auditorium we are tired of foreign nobility ond ethers coming to Chicago and turning up their noses at our 3 4 and o a day schedules we propose to give them some thing else one hundred rooms will be added to the hotel the present rooms will be rear ranged a dining room will be made out of tha parlor on the second floor a grill room will be placed under the pavement on michigan arenuey b'jt the diamond room will be the auditorium's crowning glory that and the gold-bedecked waiters the improvements will cost 300,000 and will be begun at once the hotel will not be closed mr clinch under the arrange ment sanctioned by the board of directors of the auditorium association yesterday will be director general of the hotel will s shafer and theobold j talty will be the managers Chicago to n.y in 15 hours linking of roads cuts 80 miles him jlaken time probable new yokk sept 28 a fifteen-hour train to Chicago is among the probabilities of the near future the new york central has linked small bits of road from ashta unla ().. to cleat-field i'a to bring about the result the distance has been reduced i bout eighty miles by the new route be tween new york and Chicago the mlle i^i from Chicago to philadelphia has been cut 140 inile.s already freight is being moved over the new route 11 e wllber who baa charge of the traffic said to-day it might be two years before fast passen ger traffic cart be diverted to the new â– route because of the necessity of bringing the trackage up r the requirements of heavy passenger trains running at high , speed co-eds auto in flames __ __ chauffeur rescues fiirlx after kore iiiÃŸ them to keep their scatn five northwestern university co-eds were ! rescued from a burning automobile at sher idan road and church street evanston yesterday afternoon by otto hlavncek tha chauffeur of the machine which hail been rented from the edgewater garage hlav acek says a miss brown rented the car when the fire was discovered m the machine hlavncek ordered the girls to keep their seats he stopped the auto mobile and leaping out opened the door and assisted the young women iv alight ing three of the party are saiil to have lieen miss laura brown mias litith palmer and miss agnes bickell all living at wil lard uixiii shippy return to be forced wayman's agent hurries to carlsbad to urge former police chief's appearance m Chicago levee emis sary on way to block plan man higher up can be found through official is state's attorney's belief counts on shippy's loyalty to friends for success former chief declares he's anxious to come back ' when health will permit , no graft ever touched my hands he says although at present m carlsbad eota mia more than 4,000 miles away george m shippy former chief of police of chi cago continues to monopolize the attention of the small army of detectives and attor neys who are gathering evidence for use by state's attorney wayman m the war upou police graft from the known moves of state's attor ney wayman it is surmised that he will do all m his power to get shippy hack to chi cago it is known he feels that shippy holds the key to the graft conditions the partial u'icoveriug of which led to the con viction of police inspector mecann with shippy as a witness for the state the unmasking of the mysterious ma a higher up and his special coterie of satel lites m the graft world would he made certain and easy according to the opinion credited to mr wayman by his most confi dential associates it is known however that the powers interested m suppressing the graft scandal are making a tremendous effort to get shippy to stand pat it la known th it they have sent a man to europe to counsel shlppy by all means not i.o return to chi cago while the war upou grafters and tor rnptionists is under way on the other haud it is well known that wayman has sent a man to europe to sea shippy and get from him all the iuforma | tion that he can the wayman agent was also instructed to intimate to shippy that the testimony of mecann to the effect that he was ordered by shippy to grant immunity to certain re sorts together with ertain other evwencw which the state's attorney possesses but has not yet made public is sufficient to cause shippy considerable trouble wayman plays on shippy's loyalty in the event of shippy's refusal to re turn voluntarily this agent so it is said was authorized to inform shippy that a way might be found to compel v retnrn in some quarters it is claimed that the consideration which may have greatest weight with shippy and which ultimately may impel him to return is the nought that by testifying for the state m future graft prosecutions it would be ii his power to save some of his close personal and political friends who would otbevivisa inevitably be caught in the wayman net shippy's loyalty to old friends has always been a passion with him and m this case all he would have to do would be to reveal evidence against the city hall politician known m mr wayman's office as the man higher up the man to whom all tlia threads of evidence m mr wayman's pos session points as the principal beneficiary of the graft system in vogue at the present â– lime ill Chicago in the meantime dispatches from eu rope tell how former chief shippi m an â€¢ interview at carlsbad said ! you may way emphatically that not a [ dollar of dishonest money ever found its â– way into the hands of george m shippy : when asked if he would return to l.'hl i j cago m case the grand jury should vote â– indictments against him iie replied certainly i would return provided my i health permits it it is only on acconnt ; of my health that i am remaining here at , all i am about to see a physician to-day " and my plans will depend largely upon - his advice \ heard rumors of graft j i never knew of any widespread urae , tiee of selling police protection â– â– :â– oii desplames street district tole vice there always was but of the iu - used system 1 know nothing knin ra of ibe sale of protection m the district reached me but never anything on vblcb i could bast a isc after a conference yesterday htcrneji for police inspector edward meciiun an l nounced that they would support â€¢ â– '. '- pica for a dew trial with affidavits it tacklng the credibility of louis frank's testimony i the effect that the ftrsi i.'o â– ' â– tection money lie ever collected was fof v i police inspector mecann it mi - Â„-:! by the mecann lawyers thai i ire equipped with half a doseit 'â– showing that tile frank brothers collected ,â€¢ protection money from resorts during a period extending back more than fourteen '* years i in a long distance telephone conversation r from wheeling w va yesterday state's attorney wnyiuan said tic would mil li in i Chicago until friday moraine in fie e | meantime it is expected ilia the ho-irl r of counts commissioners ill its meeting to-day will vote ml w.-iynisfli hie slll.lmhj '' fund be asks r.,i use m the graft ami tampering lnreÂ«tljfn t loafc t weather forecast Â§Â§ Chicago and vicinity fair mj wednesday with moderate tempera g -^ ture thursday fair and warmer xl j moderate westerly winds becoming j'w variable fgn barber shops candy stores cigar stores gfroccries delicatessen school stores etc easily sold through the busi ness chance commas of the examiner â€¢ f 1 " 1 " 1 lnuijliliiini.-^'a ii;.,Â«t â€” -" â– -â€”>â– â– c,